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• ‘Nippy’ green crabs taking bite out of marine eco-system – Scientists, volunteers work to restore habitat

  These little crabs have done an astonishing amount of damage to the marine eco-system at Kejimkujik National Park Seaside, formerly known as the Keji Seaside Adjunct, but Read More »

• Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance Weekly Update June 30, 2013

  “The Rhode Island Fishermen’s Alliance is dedicated to its mission of continuing to help create sustainable fisheries without putting licensed fishermen out of business.” Read the Read More »

• Cowichan News Leader Opinion – Seeing both sides of a local fisheries blockade

  The case for Government officials have ignored or run roughshod over the rights of local Natives for as long as there has been a British Columbia.,,read Read More »

• Northern Shrimp Shrimping hours expanded, season end date set for April 12, 2013

  Due to low catches of northern shrimp, which officials say may be a result of relatively warm water temperatures in the Gulf of Maine, hours in Read More »
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  Maine Elected Officials Rebuke “Seafood Watch” But Stay Silent on Endangered Species Act’s Threat to Lobstermen

  Maine lobster was recently placed on the unsustainable “red list” by the environmental group Seafood Watch, a non-profit associated with the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Gov. Janet Read More »

• New Seafood Board has Big Job Representing $2.4 Billion Industry

  by Springfield Lewis/Louisiana Seafood News – The 12 new members of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board inherit an organization proven many times over as Read More »
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  Second coronavirus wave would be ‘catastrophic,’ Massachusetts fishermen say

  Commercial fishermen and lobstermen in Massachusetts already “crippled” by the coronavirus pandemic say they fear a second wave in the fall would sink the industry. “If Read More »

• Date set for rockfish lawsuit hearing – To my Alaska Connection – ABOLISH CATCH SHARES NOW!

  U.S. District Court judge Marsha Pechman has announced that a long-awaited hearing on the fate of the new Kodiak rockfish catch share plan will take place Read More »

• Con group buys $1m worth of groundfish quota

  The (MBFT) bought $1m worth of groundfish quota — 4.2m annual quota pounds — from the nonprofit Nature Conservancy which it plans to use to benefit Read More »

• Economists unsure of how long huge salmon influxes will affect prices

  Kodiak fisherman Mike Friccero has fished for salmon for over four decades. He said he was expecting a low price for Bristol Bay salmon this summer Read More »

• Ocean acidification: yet another wobbly pillar of climate alarmism

  Last year, no fewer than 600 academic papers were published on the subject, so it must be serious, right? First referenced in a peer-reviewed study in Read More »

• Lady Washington out of the water is still shipshape – ON THE WATERFRONT WITH DAVID G. SELLARS

  The Lady Washington ran aground late Thursday afternoon at the entrance to Westport Marina in Grays Harbor. I understand that it is not an uncommon occurrence Read More »

• NMFS to open 2-week October recreational red snapper season, commercial boat owners will get their new individual fishing quotas

  More information is available here. Visit the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council website. 12:40 Read More »

• 2 commercial fishermen convicted of trap robbing

  Two commercial fishermen were convicted this week of robbing another fisherman’s stone crab traps last year. Both will face a maximum of five years in prison Read More »

• Too broke for boats, Cubans inflate condoms to find big fish

  Juan Luis Rosello sat for three hours on the Malecon as the wind blew in from the Florida Straits, pushing the waves hard against the seawall Read More »
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  StripedBassHole: The old GDT Blog, and Opening our Eyes to Global Issues

  It’s interesting how blind we can become to the World around us. News in general be it written, Radio, Television, Internet, you name it. Has a Read More »

• May deaths of two New Brunswick fishermen prompt advisory letter from TSB

  The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has issued a warning to three government bodies about overloading fishing boats, in response to the deaths of two New Read More »

• Always Top Quality! Your Seafreeze Ltd. Preferred Price List for September 9, 2015

  Contact our sales team today @ 401 295 2585 or 800 732 273 Click Here for the complete price list from Seafreeze Ltd. We are Direct to the Source-We Read More »
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  Lobster boat sinks 11 miles off Jonesport, crew rescued by good Samaritan Bad Behavior

  A lobster boat sank off the Jonesport coast in Down East Maine on Sunday. “There were two people on board the fishing vessel Overtimer. The boat Read More »
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  Crab fishing season off to early start on the Acadian Peninsula

  New Brunswick’s snow crab fishers have begun their season. At the wharf in Shippagan, boats prepared to take to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence late Friday Read More »

• ‘Horrible’ season: North Coast crabbers haul in third of average catch

  Asked to describe this year’s nine-week commercial Dungeness crab season that should have lasted seven months, Eureka-based crab fisherman Jubal Hall was quite frank. “It was Read More »

• Two Mainers plan to build their diesel-electrics for those who want an energy-efficient, lobster boat-style pleasure craft.

  The throaty diesel rumble, the petroleum smell and wisp of smoke — none of it was present when Eugene Story started the engine on the 23-foot Read More »
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  Snow crab prices skyrocket

  The price of snow crab jumped last year. It explodes again this year. The price of the first arrivals of the season, which opened on Friday, Read More »

• Lower Columbia River Gillnet supporters file fresh challenge to restrictions in the Oregon Court of Appeals

  An amended petition that challenges proposed changes to gillnet use on the lower Columbia River was filed Monday in the Oregon Court of Appeals. The new Read More »

• Construction Worker/Commercial Fisherman David Earl Finifrock Jr. of Washington State, has passed away

  Earl Finifrock Jr., born May 1,1966 in Ogden, Utah to father, David Finifrock Sr., currently of Tracyton, Washington and mother Cynthia Finifrock currently of Gig Harbor, Read More »